After bullets fly outside a Miami-Dade strip club, police have identified the two men who were shot - including a Coral Springs man who died. Jose D. Otero, 31, was killed about 6:38 a.m. Thursday. Eric Bauer, 46, was wounded but was able to drive himself to Jackson Memorial Hospital, investigators...

A high-speed police chase. A dead teenager. And now, five days without pay for the officers who broke the rules. The Coconut Creek cops tried in December 2017 to get a potentially impaired and dangerous driver off the road. But Officers Rocco Favata, Chris Lewis, David Morales and Cristian Salas...

Embattled Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie on Thursday outlined the district’s progress in making the safety and security reforms recommended by the state commission that investigated the Parkland school massacre. Runcie said the district had completed more than half of the recommendations...

The Miami Dolphins honored late Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School coach Aaron Feis as its PlayFootball High School Coach of the Year as part of the year-end awards handed out during the Dolphins home game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Feis, who died protecting students during a mass shooting...

You've made your New Year's resolutions: Eat healthier and exercise, learn to manage your money, and so on. Here's another recommended resolution: Increase your civic participation. Turnout in last November's election was close to 61 percent in Broward County — largely a result of the national...

Detectives are one composite sketch closer to catching the killer who shot a mother and son in North Lauderdale nearly three years ago. Candice McKinney, 35, died inside an apartment on the 1100 block of Cove Lake Road and her wounded son Kareem Barnett, then-18, was flown by helicopter to Broward...

Thirty-four and counting. That’s how many break-ins a serial burglar has been linked to since Dec. 9 and Broward Sheriff’s detectives are counting on a surveillance video to catch him. The clear black and white security camera video shows the burglar with a flashlight wandering around the darkened...

Coral Springs News

The former Coral Springs police chief who helped lead his agency’s aggressive response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre is now part of the new Broward sheriff’s transition team. As deputy chief or chief, Anthony “Tony” Pustizzi was Sheriff Greg Tony’s boss when Tony served as...

Gregory Tony on Friday took the reins of the Broward Sheriff’s Office in the shadow of one of the bleakest chapters in the community’s history, and immediately declared, “I’m here to serve.” With all eyes on him, the new sheriff introduced himself as anything but a politician. “I am not here for...

As he inches closer and closer to his 90th birthday, Bill Otto is not quite ready to ride off into the sunset. The Coral Springs resident, who will turn 86 on Feb. 23, rides his bicycle every day and the sunset is something he witnesses during his ventures on a 16-mile loop through Coral Springs...

A man who visits South Florida from Sweden for about a month each year pursued teenage boys at public parks in Coral Springs and Margate, according to police. Bo Gunnar Hansson, 85, tried to grab a 13-year-old boy’s “private part” at Fern Glen Park in Coral Springs and also asked two teens in Margate...

Coconut Creek High School senior defensive back Tiawan Mullen signed a National Letter of Intent to play college football at Indiana University. “Today was amazing,” said Mullen, the younger brother of Clemson’s Trayvon Mullen who played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in 2018 and is a junior...

Margate News

In recent weeks, drunken drivers have rear-ended a Florida Highway Patrol trooper’s car in Miami-Dade and vehicles driven by a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy as well as a Miami-Gardens police officer. “Somehow they always find us,” FHP Maj. Robert Chandler said in Davie on Monday while flanked...

The Conservative synagogue Temple Beth Am in Margate was among more than 80 organizations that participated in the city of Coral Springs' annual Holiday Parade. The parade featured marching bands, decorated floats and other entries along Sample Road from Coral Springs Drive to City Hall. Marchers...

A motorcyclist struck a pedestrian Sunday afternoon on one of Margate’s main thoroughfares, sending both people to the hospital, WSVN-Ch. 7 reported. The crash occurred on Atlantic Boulevard and Banks Road about 5 p.m. when a pedestrian was crossing a street, according to the report. Margate-Coconut...

Parkland News

After the terror, still wiping the tears, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resolve that their classmates’ deaths will lead to change. Their message: “Never again.” Never again will a gunman terrorize a school building. Never again will a mass murderer leave a community grieving....

The Parkland city manager, who has clashed with commissioners over development, could lose his job this week. At the request of the mayor, the city commission will discuss Wednesday whether to fire City Manager Bob Payton. “I have not been successful in getting all five commissioners to agree on...

Gov. Ron DeSantis removed Broward Sheriff Scott Israel from office Friday, replacing him after 10 months of turmoil spawned by the slaughter of 17 staff and students in Parkland. The new governor replaced Israel with former Coral Springs Police Sgt. Gregory Tony, 40, who has a background in active-shooter...

South Florida's Jewish community will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. throughout the holiday weekend of Jan. 18-21. Among the local Jewish organizations honoring King's legacy are synagogues which will host MLK Shabbat services on Jan. 18. Congregation Kol Tikvah's Social Action Committee...